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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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$66,000,000 A DAY TO CONQUER A CONTINENT—THAT'S WHAT GERMANY IS SPENDING FOR ARMY

BERLIN, Sept. 20 (U,

cash cost of conquering a continent fof the entire national income. al and local taxes and|the German Army of occupation.

was estimated by Nazi sources to- rect natio day at 150,000,000 marks

(nominally excise duties amount to 34 per cent

P.).—The ment cong and uses 50 per cent)marks ($8,000,000) a day, retroac-

Di- [tive to June 25, for the upkeep of

Local reports, so far unconfirmed,

$60,000,000) a day |in military ex-|of'the national income, while the state that the Reich government

penditures, plus

($6,800,000) a day for administrative by indirect methods. Nor is [the German citizeri the [000 marks only one to feel the pinch of these|the cost of German occupation A few days ago|and “protection” to date.

Civil expenses. What| these astronomical figures Mean to the average German can be pictured from estimates of one

vast expenditures. it was officially announced in Vichy, |butions

17,000,000 marks remaining| 16 per cent is made up recently presented the Norwegian

government with a bill for 250,000,($100,000,000) to cover

Contrifrom Belgium and the

nounced. The average worker in Germany

is concerned chiefly with what will be deducted from his weekly salary. Take the cases of Johann Schultz, married, with two children, .and Josef Meyer, unmarried. Both earn 60 marks ($24) a week as semiskilled workers. Both pay the same old-age, medical and unemployment insurance and labor front fees

In addition Johann pays about 18 per cent of his total income to the state before he tackles the other indirect and increased war taxes, while childless Josef has 30 per cent of his salary lopped off before he gets it. The total amount Germany has spent in the seven and one half years since Hitler came to power in building up the military, naval and air juggernaut which domi-

nates the European continent may according to well-informed never: be known. stated in a public address that the armed fn oy the west wall” the receives. 300,000,000 marks “cost ' 92,000,000,000 ($36,800,000,000) marks” but well-informed sources, here consider this only the partial] cost of the most direct military expenditures. In order to meet the present 5,000,000,000 marks ($2,000,000,000)

sources.

tional income which the

In 1939, Hitler | borrows 2,700,000,000 marks, 000,000 marks by taxation and

from government property and Other The 50 per cent of the entire nament controls and uses was estimated by a German expert to be

made up roughly as follows: Reich taxes, 24,000,000,000 marks.

sources, | ‘raises | 000,000 marks. Social insurance, marks. Unemployment insurance, 000,000 marks,

income

Govern000,000 marks. 000,000 marks.

3,000,000,000 |

Provincial and local taxes, 5,000,-

1700,

Dues and [fees of the German | labor front which are compulsory | and disposable by the state, 500,-

. Winter relief contributions, 400.« |

totaling about $2.50 a week. monthly expenditures the Reich,

financial expert that the govern-lithat France was paying 20,000,000 'Netherlands have not been an-

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